New book is soaraway success
Copies of Arran: Travels, Treasures and Tales can also be purchased from Amazon or at the publisher’s shop at www.carnpublishing.com.
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Arran: Travels, Treasures and Tales hits the shelves
One early review praises the book’s ‘lucid description of Arran’s breath-taking scenery’, and its ‘colourful depiction of the larger-than-life island characters and their raucous tales which really brings this book so vividly to life’.
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Remembering those lost on HMS Dasher
The annual service, at sea and in Brodick later that day, takes place on the Saturday closest to March 27, when in 1943 at 4.40pm a huge explosion ripped HMS Dasher apart and sunk the vessel within eight minutes, taking with it 527 men of whom only 149 survived.
Nostalgia
Birthday boat berths in Brodick
Launched on March 12, 1964, under her original name of MV Columba, the vessel arrived in Brodick two days after her birthday and spent the evening at the Brodick pier after taking in some of the coastal views.